A small Mars-copter confirmed that flight on other planets is possible. But before it could be deployed, Ingenuity had to travel around 480 million kilometers just to reach its mission site.

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The news was recently abuzz with stories of how the Mars 2020 mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral at the end of July, had done something that no other spacecraft had done before: it had ...

The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission—and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA ...

Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter transmitted its final message to Earth and will now serve as an immobile data-gathering unit on the red planet’s surface, the space agency said last month.

Ingenuity, the small, four-pound autonomous aircraft, will attempt the biggest of feats. The Wright brothers lifted their 1903 Wright Flyer off the ground over a century ago, and now the Mars ...

Ingenuity, a helicopter weighing only 1,800 grams, wrote a year ago a page in the history of space exploration when flying for the first time on another planet. His five planned flights on Mars ...

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WASHINGTON: Nasa's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which made history by achieving the first powered flight on another world, has officially ended its nearly three-year mission after sustaining rotor ...